How Skull and Bones Went Woke: Identity Politics in Elite Societies

In this episode, delve into the controversial transformation of Yale's infamous secret society, Skull and Bones. The discussion explores how the organization, historically known for its exclusive white male membership, has altered its selection processes to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion. The conversation covers pivotal moments and changes within the society, raising questions about hypocrisy, elitism, and the true motives behind these shifts. It also touches on broader implications for elite networks and how they reconcile with modern political ideologies, highlighting the complexities and contradictions within these evolving traditions.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about the secret society skull and bones. And before anyone thinks that this title was clickbait and that maybe this secret society, one of the most famous secret societies in the world didn't actually go woke.

I'll start with a quick excerpt for what I'm going to be reading in 2020. Skull and Bones had its first entirely non white class today, the idea of skull and bones selecting someone whose dad was a Republican president seems inconceivable.

The so called tap lines, the tradition guaranteeing the football captain and the student body president would end up in bones, are all gone. And few descendants of the alumni members get in. Instead, the secret societies affirmatively select students ,

the bones class of 2021 had quote unquote all kinds of people, but the one thing they didn't have was a single member who was a conservative. Okay, I get an [00:01:00] idea of just how there's been a

Simone Collins: takeover and that's a, that's a little Al canes recalls being tapped

Malcolm Collins: by a senior who wanted to keep the Latino line going.

So this was a person who was tapped by another Latino with the intention that they would go and tap a Latino themselves to keep at least this Latino line going with it. Okay. All right. He decided to focus on a different diversity metric. I chose three trans people. Oh no, oh no. That was my specific goal.

Simone Collins: Oh, it's yeah, wow. No white people, three trans people. It reminds me of those cartoons of like, a little fish eats a another tinier fish, and then a bigger fish eats that one, and a bigger fish eats that one until, yeah. I

Malcolm Collins: wanted to go into this because I think a lot of people, when they look at these societies, there's a few things that we can take away from this.

One is we're going to learn sort of how they took over these organizations and how this happens to, we're going to see these strange parallel [00:02:00] between the, if you look at the history of skull and bones, you know, they were a. Supremacist and an ethno supremacist organization at times. Well, they still are.

It's fine. Nothing has changed. Literally, the racists are still the one in charge. Yeah. They are still deeply concerned with and talk about the skin color background. Well, thank goodness. Tradition isn't dead. Of everyone that's being admitted to the organization. This is great. To me highlights the ethno elitism of the leftist oligarchical class at this point.

It shows how these people get into positions of corporate power to continue to carry out their dastardly needs. And it shows I, I think as well when people think to these old pockets. Of secret societies, and you know, you famously used to be managing director of a secret society that was founded by Peter Thiel and Orrin Hoffman.

We go to stuff like Hereticon, that's one I can talk about. We also go to a bunch of things I can't talk about, like I mentioned before, [00:03:00] because it was found out by a secret undercover reporter that I've been to the Bohemian Grove. But I can't say anything more than that. I can only do quotes from other people.

Same thing with my knowledge of Skull and Bones. I need to, I can talk around it. I didn't go to Yale, so I'm, you know, not directly connected. But I, I might be able to add some elaboration as I'm reading through this, but again, I have to be very careful about what I say, but I have a lot of insight into these things.

One of my favorite claims to fame personally is that the book, The Bloodlines of the Illuminati which is like the major Illuminati book, the CII hosted on their website for whatever reason. Says that my dad, like calling him out by name and the company he runs is one of the supposed leaders of the Illuminati.

So I'm the oldest male child, so I wasn't born yet when this book was written. So now I guess I'm one of the leaders of the Illuminati too. But what's humorous is in terms of the secret societies that actually impact things, you and I actually are like significant players. And I think what people don't.

realize is that the secret societies and parties that impact things are not the ones that you and conspiracy [00:04:00] theorists are afraid of. And most of them are on your side. I. e., if what they were saying at these events was something that you could just say out in the open then it would be what aligned with the urban monocultures goal for our society.

It would align with what like the leftist oligarchs want for our society. The reason they're meeting secretly is because they are in opposition to that. Now, I'm sure that there is likely some mirror societies to ours that are the actual like PDA file stuff. I mean, we know that like Epstein's Island existed and everything like that.

Yeah. So, like, clearly there was an elite network of leftists of PDA files and they likely didn't disappear just because we got rid of the school teacher that hosted the stuff. So, yeah, that, that likely exists. But I don't know if those, those organizations have the power that they used to have.

And we'll see likely why they lost a lot of their power. It's just because of governing inefficiency when you devolve into this DEI nonsense.

Simone Collins: But

Malcolm Collins: any thoughts before I dive into this? [00:05:00]

Simone Collins: I really want to hear more. I want to hear how this happened.

Malcolm Collins: All right, skull and bones equity and inclusion This was a piece in the atlantic a couple years back one evening in 2019 in a windowless building known as the tomb in the center of yale's campus The members of skull and bones snapped there They were having granted membership to the most elite secret society at one of the most elite universities in the world Part of a rare group that for generations included individuals from the most powerful families on the planet the vanderbilts the rockefellers And Buckley's have all been members of Skull and Bones.

Three bonesmen would go on to become President of the United States. Their traditions, including oaths of secrecy upon admission and antics, stealing a gravestone of Yale's founders and the rumors about them that the Bones tomb contains a human skull are legendary and an intense source of campus gossip.

Just, you know, I've cut a lot out of this story, so I'm just reading the juiciest bits.

Simone Collins: Good.

Malcolm Collins: That assumes that most of our audience is going to Basically know who the skull and bones are a lot of that expository stuff. I took out But they're in the tomb [00:06:00] surrounded by oil portraits of former bones men all white all chosen by the society's alumni board The current members felt overcome not by the achievements of those that had come before them or by the possibilities that lay ahead But instead by the organization's long history So the students did what they felt had to be done they pulled the portraits down and replace